V. I. Lenin

Among the Newspapers and Magazines (June 24, 1906)

Written:Written on June 24 (July 7), 1906Published:Published on June 25, 1906 in the newspaperEkhoNo. 4.

      Printed from theEkhotext.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 41,

      pages181.2-182.1.Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marxists.org)
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Rech{1}is resentful over the fact that in view of the
rumours of a semi-Cadet, semi-bureaucratic ministry, the Left-wing press
has begun to talk of a horse-trading deal between the Cadets and the
camarilla, of a betrayal which is inevitable in any such deals.

“Isit necessary to prove that these assertions are false and
absurd?” writes the indignantRech.

Itappears, Messrs. Cadets, that it is, and even highly, necessary to
do so, because in the same article (“Famine and Politics”) we read:

“Thisstruggle (between the Duma and the present
   ministry), a slow and hard struggle, has resulted, however, in the question
   concerning a responsible cabinet being brought down from the sphere of
   abstract considerations to the soil of concrete reality, and in it being
   discussed as one of the real possibilities.”

“Thisstruggle (between the Duma and the present
   ministry), a slow and hard struggle, has resulted, however, in the question
   concerning a responsible cabinet being brought down from the sphere of
   abstract considerations to the soil of concrete reality, and in it being
   discussed as one of the real possibilities.”

Thatis very good. But what about the question of dissolving the State
Council, the question of amnesty, the question of universal, etc.,
suffrage? Have allthesequestions likewise become “real
possibilities”already? Surely, they have not, have they? After
all, there is so far not even a rumour about them.

Thatbeing so, what is one to do? “It is necessary to prove.”

{1}Rech(Speech)—a daily, the Central Organ of the Cadet Party,
published in St. Petersburg from February 23 (March 8), 1906, under the
editorship of P. N. Milyukov and I. V. Hessen, and with close collaboration
from M. M. Vinaver, P. D. Dolgorukov, P. B. Struve and others. The
newspaper was closed down by the Revolutionary Military Committee of the
Petrograd Soviet on October 26 (November 8), 1917, but continued to appear
until August 1918 under the names ofNasha Rech(Our Speech),Svobodnaya Rech(Free Speech),Vek(Age),Novaya
Rech(New Speech),Nash Vek(This Age).

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